Sentence examples for storm surge hit from inspiring English sources

Her mother was in an evacuation centre when the storm surge hit and flooded the city.

More than eight thousand people died in Britain's Great Storm of 1703, as did fifteen thousand grazing sheep when the storm surge hit the River Severn.

The sandbagging "really didn't match up with where this storm surge hit us in Newark Bay," he said in a telephone conference call with reporters on Tuesday morning.

Debris of every type and size lined the streets of cities and villages, although it was Tacloban, where the storm surge hit hardest, that bore the brunt of the typhoon.

When the storm surge hit on Monday night, the Hudson overcame the sea wall at the north and south ends of the city in a devastating westward torrent that made an island of the slightly higher, eastern half of the city.

Once the storm surge hit Linea, it was some six blocks up from Malecon.

When a storm surge hits a flood barrier, for instance, the water does not simply dissipate.

On average, a severe cyclone with associated storm surge hits Bangladesh every 3 years (GoB 2009).

A number of the complainants said that too much time was spent reflecting on the death of Mr Mandela and not enough on the record storm surge that hit Britain on the same night.

But others were trapped by a storm surge that hit in the wee hours Friday morning — well in advance of the hurricane — swamping evacuating cars and flipping a dump truck that constables were trying to use as a rescue vehicle.

Ordinarily there would be a better distinction between "direct deaths" — such as people who drowned in a storm surge, were hit by lightning or died when a building collapsed because of winds — and "indirect deaths," such as heart attacks, house fires, electrocutions from downed power lines, vehicle accidents on wet roads and so forth.